Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Dating

In class we have been talking a lot about marriage prep and dating. I
find it fascinating by how off our culture is when it comes to dating. We seem
to skip the casual dating step of the process. I don’t understand why we do
this it just does not make sense to me. The absence of casual dating is
something that has been bothering me a lot in my own dating life. Growing up I
was taught to date casually first and to date lots of people, but when I came
to college that was not the way things were done here. It seems that people
hang out and then skip to the courtship stage forgetting the dating part. Why
do we do that? For a while I was so confused it was driving me nuts! I did not
understand why someone would try to hold my hand on a first or second date. Or
why someone would get upset if I went on one date with one guy on one night and
a date with another guy on another night. At one point I thought that something
was wrong with me, but now I realize that I was right. We are suppose to date
and date lots of people, but for some reason that is not what is going on.I think it is a real problem and may
play a part in why divorce rates are so high.

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I am a college student at Brigham Young University Idaho. I am a Marriage and Family Studies major with a minor in Interpersonal Communications. I am from Nebraska but I have lived in Idaho, Utah, Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina.